Hi Praveen,

The answer to your question could have been more specific had you given options of other universities to compare with. Nevertheless, speaking generally, the online data science course created by IIT Madras has a fantastic curriculum, but at the same time a big problem lies in the fact that it is online and is a bit expensive compared to other online courses. Also, they have specified that they provide job assistance and not job guarantee.

Another demerit of online courses is that, you'll lack a proper communication with your faculty and peers which prohibits good networking. This point could still have been taken down had they lowered down the fees or provided at least job assurance.

Keeping all these points in mind, I feel,  taking up the course might not be such a wise decision. Perhaps you can browse other online courses, free YouTube tutorials and wait and see how their placement goes and based on that you can actually take up the course in future.

Also do feel free to check out some free data science courses from the link below:

https://www.careers360.com/courses-certifications/data-analytics-courses-brpg

Hope this was helpful.